41.0 BETDAQ GRAND NATIONAL BET: Shamrock continues to create a dossier of ante-post bets as the festivals at Cheltenham, Aintree and Punchestown get ever nearer. His nap today is at Wetherby, with his current record five out of six.
Keeping it in the family. Twelve years on from Papillon, father and son Ted and Ruby Walsh could land the Aintree Grand National again.
The perfect horse for the race is a bold jumper, unexposed, sub-11 stone in the handicap and nine or 10 years old.
That’s a good fit for Seabass (9-10-12), who has a choice of trials on Saturday: the Bobbyjo Chase at Fairyhouse or the Racing Plus Chase at Kempton. Check the five-day acceptors.
In advance of his prep run, I’m taking the 41.0 on Betdaq this morning, which compares with 25-1 generally with the bookmakers.
Seabass has won his last six starts and was described by Raceform after one of them as ‘gaining two lengths at every fence.’
I doubt if he’ll be ring rusty on Saturday: though he will have had 80-odd days off, he’s had a nine-month break before now and still won next time out.
I was glad to see his win the last day on yielding ground. He’d been winning on soft and heavy, as befits a son of Turtle Island, but he took the better ground in his stride. Aintree seldom has mud.
SHAMROCK’S BETS
NAP: Railway Dillon (2.10 Wetherby)
DAQ DOUBLE: Railway Dillon (2.10 Wetherby) and Jack’s The Lad (4.45 Taunton)
ANTE-POST: Seabass (41.0, Aintree Grand National); already so far Mourad (24.0, World Hurdle, Cheltenham); Sous Les Cieux (13.5 Neptune Novices Hurdle, Cheltenham)
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